INDEXLAB Information

Indexlab is a leading design and innovation research lab based in Italy at Politecnico di Milano. WHAT WE DO We empower our customers to accelerate creative and technological innovation, pushing the boundaries of customization and data-driven performance. By advancing design and manufacturing processes, we help companies thrive in a rapidly changing world. Our mission is to invent and launch innovative construction systems. We tackle ideas that have the riskiness and ambition of early-stage research and approach them with the focus and speed of a start-up. Our goal is to develop these ideas and turn them into proven systems and technologies that make a real impact in the world. We work closely with industrial partners and forward-looking companies to explore the future of construction. WHO WE ARE We are an ambitious team of architects, engineers, artists and industrial designers with over 10 years of experience developing groundbreaking projects, products, and processes, collaborating with forward-looking companies at some of the world’s most challenging projects. INDEXLAB was founded in 2010 by Pierpaolo Ruttico, architect and engineer (Ph.D.). Pierpaolo Ruttico is a research fellow at the Politecnico di Milano. He has worked as a designer for PelliClarkePelli Architects in New York City and as a computational designer and robotic fabrication consultant for COOPHIMMELB(L)AU in Vienna. He has been a Guest Critic at SCIarc Los-Angeles and his work has been published internationally, including Advances in Architectural Geometry 2012, Encoding Architecture 2013, ESDA 2014, Digital Takes Command 2015, Advanced Construction and Building Technology for Society 2016-2018, Informed Architecture 2019.